To be peed off at binmen using my big bin to carry other rubbish around?!

[BagelandEggs]

I have a double-size green recycling bin because the council didn't have any more single ones when my old one broke. I love being able to get rid of loads of stuff every week and I am very protective of it; I put big numbers on the side and everything!
Last week when I got it back it was full of yucky liquid which had nothing to do with our recycling so I concluded the binmen are using my beautiful big bin to chuck everyone else's normal bin rubbish in to save them pushing all the bins around. I cleaned it out with boiling water and it was really horrible to tip it all out, etc. This week all the green bins were at top of road again after being emptied, dragged my big green bin back to my driveway, came back later to find it at the top of the effing road again with yucky stuff in! What can I do without pissing off the binmen?! First world problem, I know, but so annoying!

Gravity bin lock so it only opens when put on the lorry and tipped upside down?

Yes to gravity lock, but are you sure it's not just your own waste breaking down in this heat that's causing the yuck?

That’s quite a conclusion to jump to without any other information.

So the bin men are tipping everybody else's normal wheelie bins into your big green one so they only have to empty one bin? That seems like more hard work to me, or have I misunderstood what you meant?

I've watched them do the same thing. They walk along our row of houses and take stuff out of other bins and put it in one.

Would they really have lifted up other people’s wheelie bins to tip into yours? They’d be too heavy.

I imagine someone else is using the extra capacity of you mr him without you realising. Seems more likely than bin men going through the hassle of putting rubbish in your bin to then load it onto the lorry.

It is far more likely that it is liquid from your own decomposing waste. Even in normal warm temperatures waste in a closed bin will decompose. In this exceptionally hot weather it happens faster. My green bin has liquid in it. I only put plant material in!

@MarthaJonesPhone

I've watched them do the same thing. They walk along our row of houses and take stuff out of other bins and put it in one.

With green waste? Really? They are delving into bins full of decomposing green waste, grass cuttings, thorny twigs? Recycling maybe, not green bin waste.

You reckon they're lifting other buns and tipping it in yours? That's more work.

Bins*

One of your neighbours might be doing the dodge on bin day because theirs is full. It happens.

Just get a bin lock. They open when tipped over the lorry.

I’ve seen it happen Sometimes a guy comes up the street and takes the food green bags out of the caddy’s or bins and puts them into one bin to tip it into. Ours are collected weekly so sometimes the green/waste food I’m waste is minimal in the bins..

I don't understand the last bit? The bins had been emptied, you brought your bin back to your house, but then someone - bin man or otherwise - took it back to where the bins are collected? But the bin men had already been?

Or had the green waste bin men been but not the black bag / general waste bin men. So someone is using your big green bin to move bags of general waste?

So the bin men are tipping everybody else's normal wheelie bins into your big green one so they only have to empty one bin? That seems like more hard work to me

It sounds odd, but this is exactly what our binmen do. The truck moves slowly and a team of workers move ahead of it, pulling bins out to the road. My green bin is often only a quarter full (big bin, weekly collection) as are my neighbours green bins. I have often seen the workers tip a few bins into one bin then replace the empty bins before pulling one bin to the kerb for the van.

It doesn't bother me because my bin lives out front and isn't that pristine tbh.

Oh and as for why there would be smelly bin water - some of my neighbours don't rinse jars etc, and have a strange understanding of what is recyclable.

With green waste? Really?

Also our green bins are for recyclables, grass clippings etc go in the brown bin.

Get rid of the big bin and use two smaller ones. This is what I do

Don't see them as "my bins" as such. If mine's not full.and someone else wants to use it to dispose of rubbish properly it really wouldn't bother me.

I don’t understand why your bin was moved after it had been emptied and you had put it back on your drive
Why would the binmen do that?

Not all green bins are for the same thing (nationwide). Ours are just for glass. Thankfully they don't mix our rubbish up as neighbours don't understand the concept of washing the jars out first. Eughhh

I dont think it would be worth their time and effort to do this. I might ask them about it in a non confrontational way. Never argue with a binman . Even I wouldn't. They're too valuable.

They do that round here as well, it makes sense. Unless you paid for it, OP, it's not your bin and I can't a problem with refuse collection using their stuff to do a job.

it makes life a little easier for them,is that too much to ask! it's a bin it lives outside u can wash it out with a hose. meanwhile back in the normal world

@mogsrus

it makes life a little easier for them,is that too much to ask! it's a bin it lives outside u can wash it out with a hose. meanwhile back in the normal world

No. The bin belongs to OP. Nobody else should be using it.